How to ask if someone is engaged

It's about 3 weeks or 20 days since a certain Jedi placed a little something on my left ring finger and though I have not worn rings for the longest time ever (I've never worn my college ring.), I am getting used to it. It's also been quite a journey to getting married and planning a wedding which I should probably try to document as well. 

The first couple of days since I came back to base, I think I was a little self-conscious about it such that sometimes it felt like I was bragging the ring and waving it into the air. Not that I'm not proud, sometimes, I'm really just a wallflower and just want to blend in or stay low-key. Besides I wasn't sure if it was still natural the gestures that I was making. Of course, it can't be helped and the rock became the center of attention. 

Besides, my boss who I directly made the announcement, the rest of my colleagues who noticed had different ways of asking. Obvious ones were:

"Did you get engaged?"

To

"What is that on your finger?" To which I smilingly replied, "It's a ring." :)

The most interesting one was:

"miss joyce, I notice that you have a new hardware on your finger." There was nothing else to say on this one but to say "I got engaged over the holidays!" Talk about being in the (pre-dominantly male) engineering industry. :)

Thank you for putting a ring on it or should I say a new hardware, Mr. P.

Stay Open

Once upon a time a drama queen decided to make drastic moves with her career because of golden opportunities. Deep down, she was longing for companionship but would not let it stop her from living and experiencing what life or her career has to offer. 

But then He had other plans and someone came along that made her heart beat, excite her senses and take a leap. And so the story began. And things just fell into place just as He had planned, in His time. 

With His grace it will be a journey of a lifetime. No one expected it, no one anticipated but things happen for a reason.

And as they say, "stay open. Who knows lightning could strike." And it did.

She is thankful to the Lord for His wonderful gift, for having a jedi to share a lifetime with, for giving her a good and honorable man, for having a responsible, patient, understanding, loving man with a high EQ not just love her but balance her. She is happy and in love. She can't wait to be with this man and take that journey of a lifetime as Mrs. P.